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BOARDROOM SPOTLIGHT April 14, 2015
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Attendance Boundary for New Half Moon Bay South Catholic Email Print Elementary School
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The new Half Moon Bay South Catholic Elementary School is scheduled to open in
Profile: Teacher Learning and Leadership Program (TLLP)
September 2016. After a public consultation process that supported the staff recommendation
Steve McCabe, Superintendent of Student Success
about the proposed boundary, the Board
(Leading and Learning) updated the Board on the Teacher
approved the following:
Learning and Leadership Program (TLLP) that provides
1. That the new Half Moon Bay South Catholic
grants for experienced classroom teachers to undertake selfchosen, selfdirected, jobembedded professional
Elementary School open September 2016 as
development projects to expand their knowledge, develop
a JK6 facility offering both the extended and immersion French programs, and,
leadership skills, and share exemplary practice.
2. That the attendance boundaries for the new All Saints High School is one of two projects approved for
Half Moon Bay South Catholic Elementary
our Board to receive Ministry of Education funding. Project
School and St. Cecilia be approved and
Lead, Sarah Abrams and Teacher Ed Kirkham outlined the LEAP program: Learning, Experiencing,
students be directed to their appropriate
Applying, Preparing. Ms. Abrams and Mr. Kirkham collaborate with a team of other teachers to provide life skills and experiential learning for students with a Mild Intellectual Disability (MID) and/or Slow Learner Learning to better prepare them for the world of work and independent living.
school as a block move for September 2016. Although redirection of students can be disruptive, the proposed boundaries seek to minimize the relocation of existing students. The
Participating students had the opportunity to learn:
Board wishes to ensure a stable and supportive boundary for all schools, while considering each
basic kitchen, grocery shopping and laundry skills;
school’s longterm viability. For full details,
selfadvocacy skills;
including a map of the approved attendance
basic financial skills;
boundary, see pages 6672 of the April 14, 2015
basic auto care skills and how to access public transit;
Board Agenda.
plus experience career exploration field trips and job shadowing/job twinning. Programs like this help students better prepare for the world of work and independent living. For more information, see pages 515 of the April 14, 2015 Board Agenda.
Mental Health Strategy (Update)
2015 2016 Budget Process and Guidelines The Board is preparing its 2015/2016 Budget
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unions, the Catholic School Parents’ Association, Parent Involvement Committee, and the Special
Superintendent of Special Education and Student
Education Advisory Committee. The Board held a
Services Mary Donaghy, introduced Dr. Elizabeth
public input session on Tuesday, March 24th.
Paquette, Chief Psychologist and Mental Health Lead for a summary of how the Board is setting the direction for
The Board of Trustees will be reviewing and
student mental health and wellbeing.
discussing sections of the budget on the following dates at their regularly scheduled
Sample of current Board professional staff accomplishments:
public meetings: April 28, 2015 May 12, 2015
Professional learning offered to staff on topics such as
May 26, 2015
anxiety, selfinjury and the Supporting Minds
June 9, 2015
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document.
Final approval of the 2015/2016 budget is
Board developed Suicide Protocol and clinical staff presented to each school staff
scheduled for June 9, 2015. Full details on the
Developed Urgent Care Protocol in partnership with CHEO
documentation coming forward to the Board April
Participated in the development of Mental Health awareness videos for the Ministry of Education
June is available on pages 7277 of the March 24, 2015 Board Agenda.
Sample of current School based mental health activities St. Paul High School and St. Gabriel staff along with a student from Mother Teresa High School presented at the National Mental Health Conference in April St. Joseph High School participated in a pilot resiliency building program called “Sources of Strength” St. Jerome Grade 6 students participated in student voice video contest
Principal, Viceprincipal reassignments
Youth Anti Stigma Summit attended by nine OCSB high schools The Board announced the following Next steps:
appointments and reassignment of principals and viceprincipals, effective September 8, 2015.
Develop nonsuicidal self injury and crisis response protocols
Name
Internal and external communication strategy
New Assignment
Look at evidencebased programs in the area of promotion and prevention
Elementary Principals Ann
Student Success: Indicators and Credit Recovery, Semester 1, 2014 2015 Highlights
Dr. F.J. McDonald School
Beauchamp Chantel Couture
St. Anne School
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Denise Andre, Deputy Director of Education, reported to the Board that our comprehensive student success initiatives continue to support students. The highlights below indicate the success we are witnessing in our high schools:
Paul Gautreau
Assumption School
Jennifer Grant
Corpus Christi School
Marcia Lynch
St. Augustine School
Sean McGuire
St. Kateri Tekakwitha School
Mary Murphy
St. Rita School
Semenchuk
CREDIT ACCUMULATION
Caroline This year, a record 93.7% of Grade 9 students achieved 4 or more credits by the end of Semester 1, the same as last year. 87.0% of our students in Grade 10 achieved 12 or more credits by the end of semester 1, down 0.7% over
St. Isidore School
O’Connor Luce Paradis
last year,but still maintaining the growth seen over the last 5 years. Credits accumulated in Grade 11 increased 1.5% over last year with 84.4% of students achieving 20 or more credits, a 5% growth over the last 5 years. Furthermore, 93% of Grade 11 students achieved 18 or more credits(still considered on target to graduate), the same as last year. Grade 12 credit accumulation gives us some indication of our projected graduation rate (note: this is not a credits, up 1.4% over last year.
Schreider
across all grade levels than males. Males improved their credit accumulations, however, in all grade
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton School the new school in Avalon
Gerry Proulx Michael
In general, the gender gap in credit accumulation is approximately 3%, with females earning more credits
Uplands Catholic School
Jody Prevost
cohort grad rate). At the end of semester 1, 92.3% of our Grade 12 students had achieved 26 or more
opening September 2015 St. Andrew School
Tim Slack
St. George School
Karen Wilson
levels.
St. Martin de Porres School
Penny Zorn
PASS RATES
McMaster School
Pass rates continue to be high in compulsory courses. Improvements continued to be demonstrated in the majority of the Grade 9 Applied level courses (e.g. English/ENG1P up 2.9%, Mathematics/MFM1P up 5.5%, Science/SNC1P up 2.3% and Core French/FSF1P up 2.1%).
Elementary VicePrincipals
Suzanne
St. Jerome School
Larocque
CREDIT RECOVERY
Shelly Lyonnais
A record high 283 credits (307 courses) were attempted this semester by Credit Recovery, with 96% of
Katherine
credits successfully completed. The significant growth achieved last year was sustained and improved
O'Brien
upon this year. This focus on Credit Recovery supported the growth in credit accumulation across every
Peggy Perrin
grade.
St. Cecilia School St. Monica St. Gabriel School
Jennifer Prichett
Similar to last year, History and Civics were the most frequently recovered courses.
Chris Risto
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David Leach, Superintendent of Finance and Administration, provided the Board an overview regarding the
St. Thomas More
High School Principals
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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Monsignor Paul Baxter School
Nathalie Roy
Grants for Student Needs 2015 2016
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Our Lady of Victory School
Elaine Phinney
Philip Capobianco Michael Curry
Frank Ryan Intermediate School Notre Dame HS
2015 2016 Grants for Student Needs (GSN) released by the Ministry of Education. The preliminary estimate
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is that total operating grants for 20152016 will be increased by $5.2 million or an increase of 1.2% over the
John Pedari
current budget year. The following components were outlined:
St. Francis Xavier HS
High School VicePrincipals
Provincial information
Barb Arnold
School Board efficiencies and modernization (SBEM)
St. Pius X HS
Collective Bargaining
Carrie Bowie
Ongoing implementation
Vince Brunetta
St. Mark HS
School Condition Improvement
Lisa Cameron
Sacred Heart HS
Enhancements to keep up with costs
St. Patrick's HS
Michelle
Investments outside the GSN
Immaculata HS
Gauthier
Enhanced Accountability
CarrieAnn
Other Ministry initiatives
Gravel
Board level information re: OCSB
Deborah Kealey
Pupil Foundation and School Foundation Allocations
Bonnie
Transportation
McGilchrist
School Operations
Mark O'Connor
Special Education
Lester B. Pearson HS St. Francis Xavier HS All Saints HS St. Peter HS
June O'Farrell
Other Various Grants
Holy Trinity HS
Chris Todd
Notre Dame HS
For comprehensive information on the Grants for Students Needs 2015 2016, please refer to pages 56 62 of the April 14, 2015 Board Agenda.
Meeting information for the current 20152016 school year
Consolidation of Uplands Students at Holy Family, 2017 Email Print
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September 8, 2015
Fred Chrystal, Superintendent of Planning and Facilities, reported to the Board on the public consultation
September 22, 2015
process that proposed consolidating students from Uplands School to Holy Family in 2017 since the
October 13, 2015
Department of National Defense is not renewing the Uplands lease.
October 27, 2015
November 10, 2015
November 24, 2015
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The result of three public consultation meetings was support for the proposal to consolidate the two communities and, subject to Ministry of Education funding, an interest in possible improvements to Holy
December 1, 2015
Family School.
Inaugural Meeting The Board approved that Uplands Catholic School be closed as of June 30, 2017 and that all JK6 students
December 15, 2015
from the Uplands Attendance Area (see map) be directed to Holy Family Catholic School. Further, all
January 12, 2016
January 26, 2016
February 9, 2016
Students from the Uplands Attendance Area enrolled in Grades 812 in September 2017 will be
February 23, 2016
grandfathered at Frank Ryan Catholic Intermediate School and St. Pius X High School. Grandfathering
March 8, 2016
does not apply to siblings and is based on existing residential addresses and transportation services level as
March 22, 2016
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improvements to Holy Family School. School administration will collaborate to develop a transition plan to
May 10, 2016
facilitate the consolidation of the two school communities.
May 24, 2016
June 14, 2016
June 28, 2016
students from the Uplands Attendance Area entering Grade 7 in September 2017 will be directed to St. Patrick’s Intermediate School.
of June 30, 2017. Administration will develop a business case for future School Consolidation Capital funding for
For more information, see pages 6365 of the April 14, 2015 Board Agenda.
Annual Review Potential Facility Partnerships
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At the Board meeting of February 24, 2015, staff submitted a report indicating that there was no available space in any of our existing schools to accommodate facility partnerships. However, the Board does have several future designated school sites that might provide opportunities for partnerships. A public meeting was held on April 1, 2015 to inform potential facility partners of our future school sites.
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Letters were sent to various public agencies deemed by the Ministry to be community partners and an advertisement was placed in the Ottawa Citizen and on the Board website announcing the meeting. No interested parties attended the meeting. Further details can be found on page 73 of the April 14, 2015 Board Agenda.
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